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is surprised at how lame the budget was - apparently we all need to start climate change businesses to make money...

Air-Breathing, Water-Drinking Earthlings at Faux Real

Last night Ethan’s third grade class put on an Earth Day celebration, a “Prairie Home Companion” styled radio show, that was packed full of epic recorder songs and appeals to their parents to recycle and consume water and electricity in more responsible ways. Even though it was relatively standard in the school recital sense, what piqued my interest were the really slick rhetorical appeals, the kinds of environmental appeals about the health of the planet and its inhabitants that probably had all the Republican climate-change-naysayer parents in the audience squirming. For one, the aesthetic of the show was classically hippie. Between the twee recorders, marimbas and bongo drums, and the “We *Heart* Earth” posters with a heart-shaped Planet Earth in the middle, the musical and visual stylings of the show definitely borrowed the optimism from the early days of the environmental, one earth movement.

On the air: Global warming forecasts - Dan Rodricks' blog from baltimoresun.com - baltimoresun.com

MIDDAY TODAY: April 22, 2009 88.1 fm WYPR WYPO WYPF

Noon-1:00 pm Eastern
Today is Earth Day. Rarely do radio talk show conversations about our climate crisis -- at least those heard on AM radio -- extend beyond the tired debate about whether global warming is real. Well, we are beyond that. Global warming is real, and the well-traveled journalist Stephan Faris joins us today to delve into the social and political fallout from climate change around the world, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley and Ocean City, Md. How global warming will change the way we live, from things subtle and sometimes benign to the horrific and potentially catastrophic, after the NPR News at noon.

WeeWorld [Pushes Climate Scam] for Earth Day

WeeWorld is offering environmentally friendly items for purchase in honor of Earth Day, an initiative that the virtual world launched a little over two weeks ago. So far over 10,000 “Recycle and Global Warming” signs have been downloaded by users showing their support for green lifestyles.

Another 2,500 green items including environmentally friendly clothing, wind turbines and even tree huggers, have been downloaded by WeeWorld users. The items are all part of the larger virtual goods trend, something that WeeWorld was quick to participate in.
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For WeeWorld, this is a great opportunity to also target teens and push green initiatives, also giving teen users a voice of their own. Personalized WeeWorld and their avatars are great ways to provide users with a way to show their support for Earth Day and green lifestyles overall.